Aiyana Jones, the 7-year-old girl shot to death early Sunday (May 17) during a SWAT raid on her Detroit home, was almost certainly a victim of the “COPS Effect.”
Troops from the Detroit Police Department’s Special Reaction Team (“troops” is a more appropriate description than “officers”) seeking a murder suspect executed a no-knock warrant on the home where Aiyana was sleeping on the couch.
Despite warnings from neighbors that there were children present in the home – a fact attested by the toys scattered in the front yard – the SRT paramilitaries chose a Fallujah-style “dynamic entry,” hurling a flash-bang grenade through a closed window and storming through the front door with guns drawn.
The incendiary grenade landed on the couch where Aiyana was sleeping. Her father claims that the child suffered burns as a result. Seconds later, she was dead.
One of the SRT troopers engaged in what was called a “tussle” with Mertilla Jones, Aiyana’s grandmother. In the antiseptic and completely dishonest language favored by the state-aligned media, the officer’s gun “went off.”
(Read more from lewrockwell.com)
Here is evidence of our fetish for brute government force